two roads -pain -joy
strip away the skin
to the orange
and you find sweetness
the pain is the skin
the sweetness - god

inspired by

After great pain, a formal feeling comes-
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Toombs-
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round-
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought-
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone-
This is the Hour of Lead-
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons recollect the Snow-
First-Chill-then Stupor-then the letting go-
Emily Dickinson

john tiong chunghoo

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-2/